Leah Remini's 'Dancing With the Stars' Partner Says Scientologists Followed Him Around

Leah Remini publicly left the Church of Scientology back in 2013, and joined the cast of Dancing with the Stars a few months later. Now, her professional dancer partner, Tony Dovolani, is opening up about how her explosive departure from the church affected him.

Dovolani was caught by TMZ carrying Troublemaker, Remini's book about Scientology, and he told the cameraman that she taught him a lot about the secretive organization. And he claims that Scientologists followed his car around while the two of them were competing on Dancing With the Stars. (Remini and Dovolani landed in fifth place that season, while Glee star Amber Riley ended up taking home the mirrorball trophy.)

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"I know I was followed a few times," he said. "I think they try to find anything they can on a person and try to use it against them." He thinks they were trying to start nasty rumors, but the alleged followers didn't find any good dirt on him. "They couldn't find anything on me because I'm a happily married dude. And I don't do anything wrong."

But it didn't faze him, because he's been through tougher stuff. "I live in a free country, dude, I'm from Kosovo," he said. The church responded to Dovolani, and denied any sort of tracking happened. "This is nuts. It never happened," a rep told the New York Post. "Like we have said before, this is just another publicity stunt for her book."